4.0 Requirements and Cloud Manager Support for the Virtual Environment

The following table lists the virtual machine technologies or hypervisors, the host operating system for these technologies, the guest operating systems (also known as virtual machines (VMs) or “workloads”) supported by these technologies, and the provisioning adapter job available in the Cloud Manager Orchestration Server that is used to provision and manage the life cycle of the VMs.

More information about RHEL 6 VM support in Cloud Manager is also provided in this section.

For more detail about the life cycle management capabilities of Cloud Manager Orchestration, see Configuring Orchestration Provisioning Adapters in the NetIQ Cloud Manager 2.1.5 Orchestration Installation Guide.

Table 4-1 VM Technologies with Supported Host Operating Systems, Guest Operating System, and Provisioning Adapter

Hypervisor or Virtualization Technology

Host Operating System (that is, “VM Hosts”)

Guest Operating System (that is, “VMs” or “Workloads)

Orchestration Provisioning Adapter

  • VMware vSphere 4

  • VMware vSphere 5 ESXi Only

Subject to the VMware support matrix

  • SLES 10 SP3

  • SLES 10 SP4

  • SLES 11 (latest SP)

  • RHEL 5 (latest SP)

  • RHEL 61

  • Windows Server 2003 R2 (latest SP)

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 (latest SP)

vsphere

Citrix XenServer 5.6, latest SP

Citrix XenServer

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 (latest SP)

  • Windows Server 2003 R2 (latest SP)

  • SLES 11 (latest SP)

  • RHEL 5 (latest SP)

  • RHEL 6 (latest SP)

xenserv

Citrix XenServer 6 Free Edition

Citrix XenServer

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 (latest SP)

  • Windows Server 2003 R2 (latest SP)

  • SLES 11 (latest SP)

  • RHEL 5 (latest SP)

  • RHEL 6 (latest SP)

xenserv

Microsoft Hyper-V4

Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V enabled

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 (latest SP)

  • Windows Server 2003 R2 (latest SP)

hyperv

  • SUSE Xen 4.0

  • SLES 11 (latest SP)

  • SLES 10 (latest SP)

  • SLES 11 (latest SP)

  • RHEL 5 (latest SP)

  • RHEL 6 (latest SP)1

  • Windows Server 2003 R2 (latest SP)2

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 (latest SP)2

xen

Kernel-based Virtual Machine for Linux (KVM)

SLES 11 SP1 or SP2 running libvirt 0.7.6 or greater

Subject to the published KVM support matrix

kvm

1 For more information about RHEL 6 VM support, see RHEL 6 VM Support, below.

2 Windows VMs running on the Xen hypervisor require a VM host CPU with the Intel VT or AMD-V technology available and enabled.

4 A complete listing of guest OS support for the Hyper-V hypervisor is available at the Microsoft TechNet Web site and at the Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V product page. This matrix shows only those guest OS’s supported by Cloud Manager.

RHEL 6 VM Support

You need to be aware of the following limitations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 VMs in the NetIQ Cloud Manager environment:

  1. In the file structure of the template VM, open the /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file and remove all its lines.

  2. In the file structure of the template VM, open the /lib/udev/write_net_rules file and comment (that is, add a # sign preceding the code) the line that looks similar to this:

    write_rule "$match" "$INTERFACE" "$COMMENT"
    

NOTE:Editing the template VM files assures that all its clones will work properly.